❝ melisa becomes a firefighter at house fifty-one, finding her second family ❞
❝ amy took the intelligence job in chicago to
solve her parents' murder, falling in love
...
chapter fifteen; better to lie [ season one, episode seventeen ]
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IT WAS STILL dark when Melisa was awakened by the sound of a vacuum cleaner. She dragged herself out of bed to see who was making so much noise in the middle of the night.
She went down the stairs. Kelly was behind her. The noise must have woken him up too. Shay was vacuuming.
Kelly grabbed the cables and disconnected them, turning the vacuum off. Melisa leaned against the staircase, rubbing her forehead. She was exhausted.
Shay looked at her roommates. "Did I wake you?"
Kelly threw his arms to the side, like the answer to that wasn't obvious. "Yeah." And Melisa nodded, humming slightly.
"Sorry! I just wanna get the place clean."
"And it couldn't wait till morning?" Melisa questioned. She got cranky if she didn't get enough sleep.
"My dad's only coming for a few days," Kelly stated. "He won't care about the carpet."
Shay groaned. "Is that this week?"
Melisa frowned when she saw the bags leaning against the wall. Shay noticed and started explaining. "Oh, the bags. I just— everywhere I look, I see Clarice, and I just want to get it out so I can move on or whatever."
"All right, listen, I'll get it down to the dumpster when I get back up, okay?" Kelly told Shay. "And I'll get that to Goodwill." He gestured to the baby crib.
"No, no, no, that stays." This confused Melisa and Kelly. Why would she want to keep it?
"Why?" Melisa asked.
"I... I want to have a baby. Look, Clarice ripping my heart out for a second time was, you know... devastating... but when I held Wesley in my arms for the first time, I never felt so much purpose or so connected to anyone ever. And it's really expensive, but I'll figure it out. I'll work extra shifts or, you know, whatever."
"Shay, you don't need to be making any decisions right now."
"I've made the decision," Shay snapped at Kelly. She was tearing up. She shrugged. "I'm gonna have a baby."
Melisa and Kelly wanted to be supportive, but they didn't know if it was a good idea.
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"I'M CURSED," Hermann stated. They had opened the box and were going through it.
Otis held up a piece of paper. "Hermann, this contract, if you wanna call it that, is ancient."
